On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:47:57PM -0000, Derek Stewart wrote: > The Q60 does make the M68K linux go, I have only a 66mz Q60. > > The FPU in the 66Mhz 68060 make a different in Linux, or is the 80Mhz 68060 > much faster on execution of the Linux code. Probably talking about X > application here.
the missing FPU can make a very big difference, it is heavilly used for example for font rendering. Also some more esoteric aplications may not work correctly because the FPU emulation in the linux kernel is not yet complete. Btw the 2.4 kernels are now pretty mature, they are available by CVS at linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org, see also http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/ They should compile out of the box given the right config and compiler>=2.91.66. Modutils and ppp must be upgraded for these kernels. There are a few niceties like UDF filesystem and 'mount -t bind' for the experts. Packet writing to CD-RW still requires a kernel patch. Bye Richard
